AVENUE PATRICE LUMUMBA

Celebrated South African photographer Guy Tillim has published his recent body of work in a book entitled Avenue Patrice Lumumba. It contains brilliant images depicting the actual and implied history to be found in the architecture and spaces related to some of Africa's troubled history.

There is a brief foreword by Robert Gardner and a short essay by Guy Tillim at the beginning of the book. Otherwise the pages are filled with photography at its most suggestive and most unsparing.

Tillim was awarded the first Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum at Harvard. This Fellowship provides a creative photographer with the means to work anywhere in the world on any subject concerned with the human condition. It also provides funds for the publication of the work resulting from the time given to the photography. This first book was published by both Prestel and the Peabody Museum Press. Dayanita Singh is the current (2009) Felllow and Alessandra Sanguinetti has been selected for the 2010 Fellowship.

128 pages, 9 3/4" x 13 5/8", uncoated full-color dust jacket with folded inside flaps, paper-bound hardcover. First edition published by Prestel Verlag, New York, 2008. Designed by Guy Tillim and Gabrielle Guy, and offset printed and bound by Passavia Druckservice, Passau, Germany.

Related links:
Michael Stevenson Gallery
Guy Tillim on Wikipedia
Harvard Gazette
On display at the Peabody Museum through September, 2009
Boston Glove review